KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—SecureWatch, an ADT authorized dealer based here, takes steps to make sure job applicants don’t have criminal backgrounds—such as paying a top-notch company to do background checks on them and searching the Internet for information about them, said company COO Paul Victor.
So the company was stunned to learn that a brand-new door-to-door sales rep it had hired—who Victor said had checked out clean—now stands charged with rape and attempted murder while on the job in Tampa, Fla.